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Is there any way to customize the "start" menu on fedora core 2? i ask cause when i installed mplayer, it created three shortcuts...one under sound&video>mplayer, one on system settings>multimedia>mplayer, and then another on systemsettings>serversettings>multimedia>mplayer

This is the one thing I don't like about Gnome, it doesn't allow for easy menu editing. To get rid of the extra shortcuts you will have to do the following:cd /etc/X11/applnk
ls
look for the mplayer.desktop
mv mplayer.desktop /usr/share/application
Now comes the tricky part, open your favorite text editor then go to /usr/share/applications, open up mplayer.desktop. In this file look for the part that will look like this:Categories=Application;AudioVideo this should be what is after Categories=, this will remove the extra shortcuts.

that is what my gmplayer.desktop file looked like...it was in /etc/X11/applnk/Multimedia folder

i moved it to /usr/share/applications and then went to edit the file as you said...however, there was no Categories as you said...i decided to try two things...first i changed Type=Application to Type=Application;AudioVideo but that did not work...i also tried adding in Categories=Application;AudioVideo bu that did not work either

number three is where it is supposed to be...and that is fine because it is there...but i'm wondering why it's also in 1 and 2...it makes no sense that mplayer would be set under system settings and even more strange is that there is one under server settings...that makes no sense to me...

I'm not sure whay it isn't pulling these entries out, this was the same problem I had with Xine and when I made the changes as above and logged out and back in then the 2 shortcuts were gone, and it was only left under Audio&Video.

I am also trying to customize my Main Menu (Start Menu) and have not quite found out where to do it. Did you ever figure this out. I am using Fedora as well and this would be a huge downfall if you can not do something as easy as customizing the Main Menu.

Well I am going to continue to try and work this out. I really don't think it makes much sense. There has to be a relatively easy way to resolve this. I work primarly on NT based machines and obviously it is easy to customize the desktop on a per user or group basis. That would be a huge downfall of any Linux system if you can not easily customize the desktop. If I find something, I will let you know.